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  • The Aid Triangle

    Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

    The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such ... Leer más

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    “It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand ... Leer más

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  • Arab Dawn

    Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    de Bessma Momani ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?Change ... Leer más

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  • The Selfish Altruist

    Relief Work in Famine and War

    de Tony Vaux ...
    Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical ... Leer más

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  • An Everyday Geography of the Global South

    de Jonathan Rigg ...
    Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how and why people take on new work and acquire new skills, how migration and mobility have become increasingly ... Leer más

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  • Water Resources and Development

    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change.Water Resources and Development provides a stimulating interdisciplinary introduction to the role of water resources in shaping ... Leer más

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  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edición de Melinda Smale, Marc Cohen ...
    Series series Development in Practice Books
    This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In ... Leer más

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  • Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam

    Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment

    de A. Wells-Dang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies. ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Resistance

    Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, through collective narration and practices. With a unique empirical analysis of one particular narrative ... Leer más

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  • Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity narrative, Lemke's modified concept of precarity reveals new insights into the American situation as well as into the textuality of ... Leer más

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  • When the State Fails

    Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

    Edición de Tunde Zack-Williams ...
    Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of ... Leer más

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